If anything, I’d argue that Endgame is largely unspoilable because it’s not a movie that relies very much on tricks or twists. There’s only one really surprising death and even that is setup as an inevitability a good half-hour before it happens.

My interpretation of all the timeline stuff was that it was the stones themselves that held everything together in a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey kind of way. So you can mess with the timeline (Loki getting free, Cap going back to the past) and the stones will kind of keep everything in its natural order, but removing…

But Steve went back and returned it to 1970, so Loki could get it later.

I’m an old Bengals fan. Sue me.

Yeah, there’s something weird going on here. The AFC East is 1, 2, 3, and 13. The AFC Central (who play the AFC East) is 5, 6, 7, and 9 and the NFC East (who also play the AFC East) is 4, 8, 11, and 12.

I feel like this is the “they play a kid’s game” argument writ small. Sure, you did it for fun. But you and the others made somebody else a lot of money. There’s no reason you shouldn’t get some of it.

Did the “Your Money or Your Life” authors ever update the investment advice in their book? Because I remember liking its budgeting and lifestyle advice but “buy nothing but government bonds as your investment strategy” doesn’t have the same traction as it did forty years ago.

I think it works for his strategy and the class of listener/reader he generally has.

The IRS already has a great, cheap, and in-house free e-filing system: Free Fillable Forms. I use it every year and it’s great. The one big flaw is that, thanks to Intuit’s big spending (among others), I have to manually add in all of the information the IRS already has on me.  There’s no reason why the IRS shouldn’t…

Yeah, we need a little clarification of terms here.

I like your comment, but especially because “Ozymandias” wasn’t the penultimate episode of the show, it was the antepenultimate.

I guess I would say, in their defense, that it wasn’t their security that was hacked. Somebody else’s site was hacked and the problem is people reusing the same credentials from that other site.

I picked up a regular PS4 when it was $200 on Black Friday and it was a great purchase. But I’m also somebody who doesn’t play multiplayer much and is perfectly fine mowing through the back catalog: The games I’ve played the most so far are Spider-Man, Lego Avengers, and Arkham Knight, to give you an idea.

I picked up a regular PS4 when it was $200 on Black Friday and it was a great purchase. But I’m also somebody who…

I don’t know. I feel like this advice would work particularly well for a freelancer or somebody whose hours vary week-to-week, because you can definitively say, “this thing will cost me one published piece” or whatever and know the amount of work it will take to do that.

I would also recommend having the seller buy a home warranty as part of the closing. They’ll usually do it because they’re not terribly expensive and they’ll cover most of the appliance-related expenses you might have in the first year.

I totally respect that, but I get the urge to want people to try it anyway. I was 25 before I started using real onions and garlic in dishes. I had just grown up on onion powder and garlic powder because my dad allegedly didn’t like them in natural form and I had always hated raw onions. I, too, always picked them out…

By my (very rough) count, outside of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, there have been fewer than 1,000 deaths caused by earthquakes in the last 200 years yet the USGS spends twice as much on earthquake monitoring as they do on volcano monitoring.

Because conservative morons spent years railing against it as wasteful spending.

I highly recommend the NYT Crossword app. Not only does it have decades of previous crosswords, but the ability to track your success makes it pretty obvious how you are improving.

Hulu is worthless if it isn’t owned by Disney/Fox/Comcast because they provide the content. If Apple is starting its own service, they won’t get anything out of Hulu.